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Today's expression, very, very good expression, to go down.

Now, to go down can be a phrasal verb, but I want to talk about a different meaning and this can be very confusing to go down or to come down many times in American dialogues sitcoms you know

movies and in DDM we always see this expression to go down.

Go down to the office.

Go down to the store.

Go down to see my mom.

Why do we say go?

I'm sorry.

Why do we say down?

Can we say up?

Can we say over?

No. If an American says go down, they do mean down and down has three possible meanings. The first meaning of down is downtown, the center of town. So i'm going down to work where do most people work what's the image of

where most people work downtown in a big office building so i'm going down to my office

that means you're going downtown.

The other meaning of down is physically down.

For example, if you live on the 10th floor, but you need to go to the convenience store.

On the first floor, you could say, I'm going down to the store. And it literally

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